Ed Lee Quotes

Exercise is one of the best ways in preventing the rapid growth of obesity in America.

It's the writers' job to make it positive. It's my job to make it real.

Science is not about what's true or what might be true, science is about what people with originally diverse viewpoints can be forced to believe by the weight of public evidence.

I grew up in a house with dogs. We always had dogs. We always had a bunch of dogs, actually.

I am often accused of interfering in the private lives of citizens. Yes, if I did not, had I not done that, we wouldn't be here today.

The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different.

I love that you work out relationships with people as you're filming just to get something real to play on screen.

Simplicity and beauty are the signs not of truth but of a well-constructed approximate model of a limited domain of phenomena.

More than ever, we as parents and a nation must do something about the growth of obesity in our children. We must do more than just talk, we must be concerned enough to act.

I plan to eliminate the equity cap in investment, and I also plan large-scale deregulation to meet global standards.

Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.

It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.

I think I felt that I was very well known for my figure and needed to keep that up for my work. And I regret all of it. I felt fraudulent and very shameful.

If you like to tell stories and compose sentences, and if you work hard at being good at these things, then you are a writer even if you haven't published anything.

I've been in showbusiness all my life, but as an actress I have never been overly driven.

Having - and keeping to - a regular exercise routine is crucial. And forget about those extreme diets - they aren't healthy.

When I know something I like, I just want to replicate it.

Im writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and Im very greedy, and I really enjoy it!

I was beloved. I had been hoped for. Somehow, I was necessary.

The same way that mid century modern architecture was in the 50s, I want to be as a human being. New. Different. Challenging the old. Function over frivolity. Clean living. Clean lines.

That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.

If I got a superpower I wouldn't say, oh, I got to get a costume and put on a mask. I would say hey, I can do something better than other people. How can I turn it into a buck?

Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.

And I know that God made the heart the most fragile and resilient of all organs, that a lifetime of joy and pain might be encased in one mortal chamber.

The more you have, the more people want to use you and damage you.

I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it.

By the way, food and rent aren't the only things around here that cost money. You sleep on the couch.

So, am I friendly with my daughter and her friends? Yes. Am I their friend? No. Does she shut the door? Yes, and I very much support the shut door.

Well, some people die and then they sell more records, go figure.

And I was ashamed of myself for feeling like I had to do that in order to look a certain way. I felt misshapen, just not natural anymore. And I think it was a big stimulator of my drug use.

If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

If I run towards you, you should be running towards me!

The only heaven permitted to me is the part-time job heaven.

I love my little Mac G4 computer and we just had Internet installed on the bus... we all have little Macs actually, there's four of us on the bus, and we all just sit there and surf the Internet!

I always thought success was from inside, so it was how diversified you were as a person and how cultivated or how much you cultivated yourself.

A country's competitiveness starts not on the factory floor or in the engineering lab. It starts in the classroom.

The role of G-20 is to support the global economy to achieve strong, sustainable and balanced growth.

If I have a last wish, I want to remember you. In an aimless life, to not even have those memories would be hell.

I think any stereotyping is too much.

For us, from Korea's perspective, China is the number one investment destination as well as number one trading partner.

People's lives are already cut out for them, and it's decided whether they will be successful or not.

Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards.

At first a golfer excuses a dismal performance by claiming bad lies. With experience, he covers up with better ones.

The spiritual life is always about letting go. It is never about holding on.

In the greater part of humankind there resides an instinct for survival. It is this which can clutch at straws and effect a rescue from them. It is this which can, now and then, outwit fate.

Nobody heard records of you playing whatever the melody was on those low strings. It worked out good, you know, about 25 or 26 million records later. I guess it worked out alright.

I always felt that the Cubans were being pushed into the Soviet Bloc by American policy.

I hear they burn for murder. Well, they say it just takes a second to die.

I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.

I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.